Word of the Day 09/11/24 Kafkaesque
Kafkaesque (adjective)
Kafkaesque [ kahf-kuh-esk ]
adjective
1. relating to, characteristic of, or resembling the literary work of Franz Kafka; marked by a senseless, disorienting, often menacing complexity: Kafkaesque bureaucracies. | the Kafkaesque terror of the endless interrogations; Kafkaesque bureaucracies.
Origin: First recorded in 1945-50; Kafka + -esque
Example Sentences
Political pressure, economic resources and the ability to navigate into a Kafkaesque bureaucracy play a determinant role.
From The Daily Beast
He emerges from the horrors with a Kafkaesque account of life in the Chinese jails.
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Frederick Deknatel on the vulgar Kafkaesque genius of Sonallah Ibrahim.
From The Daily Beast
David Choe must have had a Kafkaesque morning, waking up to find himself changed in his bed into a monstrous millionaire.
From The Daily Beast
Yet if his lonely experience in prison could be called Kafkaesque, then so too could his life before he was sentenced.
From The Daily Beast
Now YOU come up with a sentence (or fic? or graphic?) that best illustrates the word.
Kafkaesque [ kahf-kuh-esk ]
adjective
1. relating to, characteristic of, or resembling the literary work of Franz Kafka; marked by a senseless, disorienting, often menacing complexity: Kafkaesque bureaucracies. | the Kafkaesque terror of the endless interrogations; Kafkaesque bureaucracies.
Origin: First recorded in 1945-50; Kafka + -esque
Example Sentences
Political pressure, economic resources and the ability to navigate into a Kafkaesque bureaucracy play a determinant role.
From The Daily Beast
He emerges from the horrors with a Kafkaesque account of life in the Chinese jails.
From The Daily Beast
Frederick Deknatel on the vulgar Kafkaesque genius of Sonallah Ibrahim.
From The Daily Beast
David Choe must have had a Kafkaesque morning, waking up to find himself changed in his bed into a monstrous millionaire.
From The Daily Beast
Yet if his lonely experience in prison could be called Kafkaesque, then so too could his life before he was sentenced.
From The Daily Beast
Now YOU come up with a sentence (or fic? or graphic?) that best illustrates the word.